Tiger’s Crisis, an NBA Mini-Mailbag, the Confusing Knicks, 'Survivor 50,' and the Yucky Red Sox | With Joe House, Jason Concepcion, and Bill’s Dad

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

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4.4 • 30.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2026

⏱️ 146 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Joe House to discuss the Tiger Woods situation before diving into the mailbag to answer some questions from the listeners (2:53). Then, Jason Concepcion hops on to talk about the Knicks heading into the playoffs and ‘Survivor 50’ (01:08:11). Finally, Bill’s dad checks in to talk Boston sports and television shows (01:51:35). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Joe House, Jason Concepcion, and Bill’s dad Producers: Chia Hao Tat and Eduardo Ocampo #ULTRACourtside could get you closer to the game! https://michelobultra.com/courtside MICHELOB ULTRA® COURTSIDE ’25 to ’26. No Purchase Necessary. Open to US residents 21 plus. Begins on October 1, 2025 and ends on June 30, 2026 Multiple entry periods. See Official Rules at https://michelobultra.com/courtside for free entry, entry deadlines, prizes, and details. The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit⁠⁠⁠ www.rg-help.com⁠⁠⁠ to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:55.4	I would highly recommend it. We have an action-pack podcast coming up momentarily. We're going to talk to Joe House about Tiger Woods. We're going to talk about a bunch of NBA stuff, and I'm going to do, I had a lot of great mailbag questions, so I need somebody to bounce them off. so house and i cover a lot of stuff there. Old friend Jason Katsepsie-ohn came on to talk about the New York Knicks.
1:17.4	What are we seeing with this team heading toward the playoffs? Why is everybody so lukewarm? What's
1:22.3	going on here? And then we talked about Survivor 50 for a while, which I wasn't totally expected,
1:27.3	but I had a great time doing it. You can listen to his podcast. It's called Wait a Second. We launched it, I think, eight, nine weeks ago. And it's really, really good. And then last but not least, my dad, the Red Sox are 1 in 5. The Celtics Tatum's back. Patriots have a draft coming. He just wanted to come on.
1:45.1	So what am I going to do?
2:00.6	I had to have him on. He was making me feel guilty. But I also really want to talk to him about the Celtics. So that's what we got. I'm taking a risk by finishing this podcast on a Thursday afternoon. There's an OKC Lakers game tonight. and I'm really hoping that like Luca doesn't score like 75 points
2:03.6	against Oklahoma City or something. There's an OKC Lakers game tonight, and I'm really hoping that, like, Luca doesn't score
2:02.5	like 75 points against Oklahoma City or something.
2:05.3	I'm going to be really mad if I didn't wait until after this game, if it turns out to be
2:08.9	great.
2:09.5	We'll find out.
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